Emotional George Evans delighted to be part of 'brilliant' Derby County win at Norwich

An emotional George Evans was delighted to play his part in Derby County’s dramatic 4-3 victory over Norwich City.

Evans was handed his first start since suffering a knee injury on his home debut against Ipswich Town in August.

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What a feeling! The character shown by the lads was fantastic. We’ve got a great set of lads here. We found it tough for the first half-an-hour, going 2-0 down, but we showed character in abundance to run, work and get ourselves back in the game. It’s a great win and I’m a little bit speechless!”

Norwich legend on 'points dropped'

Norwich City legend Darren Huckerby believes it was “points dropped” for his former side against Derby County yesterday.

The Canaries led 2-0 and then 3-2 - but eventually lost 4-3 to the Rams.

He tweeted after the game:

Mental finish at Carrow Road, got to say it’s points dropped, give credit to Derby players after floodlights went out, could’ve easily tried and get the game off but came out and got two goals. Incredible run by (Norwich) still loads of points to be played for.”

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'Unbelievable character'

The boss was a happy man last night .. just look at that passion!

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Posh chief talks Jack Marriott

The summer signing from Peterborough United got the winning goal for Derby at Norwich yesterday.

He’s made quite an impact since arriving from League One and Peterborough owner Darragh McAnthony is pleased to see his former player doing so well.

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Some stat

Good summer recruitment by the Rams and Frank Lampard.

Top stuff.

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Daniel Farke reacts...

Daniel Farke was loathe to use the delay for a floodlight failure as the reason his Norwich City side surrendered their lead against Derby County.

The Rams completed a remarkable turnaround to beat the second-placed Canaries 4-3, with Jack Marriott netting the winner in injury time.

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I don’t want to use the floodlight problem as an excuse but if it hadn’t been for that I am sure we would have gone on and won the game. We had just scored, we had the momentum with us, and the delay gave Derby a chance to take a break and make changes.”

A Derby win was looking highly unlikely when Norwich raced into a two-goal lead.

It’s the maddest game I’ve ever played in and I think I ever will. It’s something you could never write or speak about, because you never expect it to happen. It’s football, so it can happen, but it was crazy. I have no words to describe what happened. It’s all kind of a blur!”

What was said in the dressing room during floodlight failure

Frank Lampard has revealed what was said in the Derby County dressing room while the players waited for one of the Carrow Road floodlights to be repaired.

Only nine minutes of normal time remained when Teemu Pukki scored his second goal of the Championship contest to put Norwich City 3-2 up before one set of lights on the Regency Stand went out.

The referee took both sets of players off the pitch. The floodlight was fixed and the game resumed after a hold-up of 20 minutes.

Staring defeat in the face, Derby turned the contest on its head to win 4-3.

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I told them they deserved some kind of result, whether it was a draw or a win, for the effort they had put in having come from a difficult game a few days ago (at Sheffield United) and gone 2-0 down against Norwich. That’s character, and I just told them that.”

'I'm hugely proud'

Derby County Manager Frank Lampard celebrates victory after the Sky Bet Championship match between Norwich City and Derby County at Carrow Road (Image: Stephen Pond/Getty Images)

I’m hugely proud. Thirty minutes in, it looks like a pasting. It could have been anything. We were slow, off our game, and Norwich were, as they have been this season, their very fluent self. The (Tomori) goal fortunately changed our urgency levels and from then on, we were right in the game. Now whether we deserved to win the game absolutely on play, I’m sure Norwich might contest it. It was a very even game, with chances at both ends. But in terms of what we put into it, in desire and effort from the players, to go off the pitch and come back on with nine minutes to try to turn the game around, we deserved it on that alone, from our point of view.”

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Player ratings

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Start with the match in pictures

Some superb shots in here.

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Welcome

Morning all.

What a day.

Quite unbelievable scenes yesterday at Carrow Road and we will have all the reaction right here.